Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Indigenous pre-school in the frame for photography award
Northern Star
GUMMYANEY Aboriginal Pre-School in Grafton have made the finals of Australian Child Care Week Awards. Director Mel Carpenter said she is excited to represent the Gummyaney community at an award ceremony in Sydney next week. The school made ...

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
Radio Australia
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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TopNews United States
Smoking push to quit for the baby
Brisbane Times
PREGNANT women and indigenous Australians are being targeted in a new anti-smoking campaign that comes a month before all cigarettes have to be sold in plain packaging. The latest statistics suggest one in seven Australian women smoke during ...
Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%The Conversation
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenRadio Australia
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia
Counsel & Heal -TopNews United States
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NZ group says NT Indigenous education decades behind
ABC Online
The head of a New Zealand parliamentary committee says Australia is lagging behind in its education of Indigenous children. The Maori Select Parliamentary Committee has been touring central Australia. The group is comparing the treatment of Indigenous ...

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The Age
Golf plans on course near Uluru
ABC Online
The operator of Ayers Rock Resort says a planned 18-hole golf course near Uluru in central Australia will not be an environmental hazard. Voyages Indigenous Tourism is planning to construct the course about 20 kilometres from Uluru Kata Tjuta National ...
Golf course proposed for UluruSydney Morning Herald

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Tone Deaf
Music Identities Land Nomintions For Australian Of The Year
Tone Deaf
Northern Territory Indigenous music label Skinnyfish Music's founders Michael Hohnen and Mark Grose were announced as NT finalists in the 2013 Australian of the Year award, coinciding with the news that the bassist for Queensland-based rock act The ...

Traditional owners studying for stake in gas industry
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Paul Hodosi from Canberra chats about his future career prospects with QGC representative Kevin Alley at Dreamtime Cultural Centre in Rockhampton. Fourteen students from the Iman Traditional Owner Group are on their way to employment in the gas ...

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Discovery grants announced
The Australian
The Australian Research Council has funded 1014 major grants under its latest round of Discovery Projects, Discovery Indigenous, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities schemes. These were ...

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Movie investors face wait for a glittering prize
Sydney Morning Herald
An estimated one million cinema viewers have now seen a story about Aboriginal women rising above racism with warmth and humour, giving a fresh perspective on indigenous Australia. Only 13 Australian releases have taken more at the local box office - a ...

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NEWS.com.au
Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%
The Conversation
The number of Indigenous heavy smokers fell from 17.3% in 1994 to 9.4% in 2008, a relative drop of 45%, a study has found. The study, conducted by the Menzies School of Health Research and published today in the Medical Journal of Australia, analysed ...
Nurses welcome campaign to butt outNursing Careers Allied Health
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
ABC Online
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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Technology revives Aboriginal language
ABC Online
MARGARET PAUL: And it's not the only example of technology being used to revive Australian Indigenous languages. Mr Hobson has been working with a colleague in the United States on translating Facebook into less popular languages. Three Australian ...

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Sydney Morning Herald
Golf course proposed for Uluru
Sydney Morning Herald
The federal government has received an application from the resort's operator, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, which provides training and employment for indigenous people, to build a 28-hectare, 18-hole course about 10 kilometres from Uluru.

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Sydney Morning Herald
All musical styles covered with roots to the fore
Sydney Morning Herald
A new wave of indigenous musicians is receiving unprecedented attention from audiences in Australia and overseas, buoyed by a general upsurge of interest in Aboriginal artists. Hit films such as Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires, the crossover popularity ...

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Brisbane Times
Golf course proposed for Uluru resort
Brisbane Times
The federal government has received an application from the resort's operator, Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia, to build a 28-hectare, 18-hole course at a cost of $15 million-$20 million about 10 kilometres from Uluru. But preliminary hydrological ...

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Brisbane Times
Number of indigenous heavy smokers drops
The Australian
The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who smoked more than 20 cigarettes a day almost halved between 1994 and 2008, a report in the Medical Journal of Australia on Monday found. The rate dropped from 17.3 per cent of indigenous people ...
Smoking push to quit for the babySydney Morning Herald
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant womenRadio Australia

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Community stores slash prices on Aboriginal lands
The Australian
THE price of fresh fruit and vegetables will be slashed and baby formula sold at cost-price in community stores on South Australia's remote Aboriginal lands that are at threat of a takeover by government-backed Outback Stores. Mai Wiru, an Alice ...

Mundine facing Labor backlash
The Australian
The blowback came as the former ALP national president - who revealed exclusively in The Weekend Australian he had renounced the membership he held for decades - ramped up his condemnation of Labor's record on combating indigenous disadvantage.

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Keona's big dreams finally a reality with Indigenous Allied Health
National Indigenous Times
As a young child, Keona Wilson had big dreams. She knew she wanted a good life, even if she wasn't always sure how to get there. An Aboriginal woman born in Redcliffe Queensland, Keona is a speech pathologist of seven years and is a Board Director at ...

NEWS.com.au
Anti-smoking ads target Indigenous pregnant women
Radio Australia
"The Breaking the chain ads show both Indigenous men and women talking about how they want to be alive to look after their kids, that they want to be strong and healthy and around when their kids grow up," she said. "Those ads have worked very ...
Number of Indigenous heavy smokers down 45%The Conversation
Nurses welcome campaign to butt outNursing Careers Allied Health
Government focuses on pregnant smokersSky News Australia

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